Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Stretch. Oregon was the last popular test before the convention. Now that the dust had cleared, it was possible to see the frontrunners. They had narrowed down to three: Dewey, Taft and Arthur Vandenberg-who, although still an unannounced candidate, was the popular choice in the event of a deadlock. Taft was up there mostly on his nerve. He was in a position to do some jockeying and bargaining. On the first ballot, Dewey would clearly be in the lead...
...period of the New Economic Policy (1921-28) characterized by limited revival of small-scale free enterprise in Russia; the period of the Popular Front (1935-39); the period of wartime collaboration...
...large, airy Comedor Popular (people's dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain...
...Seattle, a Silver Buffalo-highest award in U.S. Scouting-was presented to Songwriter Irving Berlin at the annual banquet of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The banqueters were entertained by a group of high-school singers, who for half an hour sang popular songs, all of them by Songwriter Jerome Kern. At a Manhattan Scout-o-Rama, the Cubs honored Margaret Truman with their "Grand Howl." Replied Margaret...
...newest, slickest, most popular performer of them all is a man who calls himself Gorgeous George. In Hollywood, some bars and grills no longer feature the single word "Television." They put out signs reading: "Gorgeous George, Television, Here Tonight...